National Horizons Centre (Biosciences)
The National Horizons Centre (NHC) is a £22.3m centre of excellence for the bioscience industries. With research, partnerships and training at its core, the NHC brings together industry, academia, talent and world-class facilities to create real-world impact.
The centre is focussed around three core specialisms:
- Disease-specific research
- Biomanufacturing
- Digital analytics and machine learning
Through fundamental and applied research, the NHC prides itself on discovering diseases earlier, developing novel treatments and delivering life-saving medicines quicker, safer and more affordably.
It works with a range of public and private sector partners to accelerate innovation, including public health organisations, academic institutions, business start-ups, SMEs and multinationals.
Leadership team
Professor Vikki Rand
Research at Teesside
Research is key to finding new ways of changing things through interventions and bio-scientific methods. Without it, I wouldn't be here as research into retinoblastoma, an eye cancer, saved my life.
News
The Conversation
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Maria O’Hanlon
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